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Israel: Stewart Rahr Convinces "The Donald" To donate $100,000 to United Hatzalah

Stewart Rahr, well known businessman and philanthropist, has long been a major supporter of the Israeli volunteer emergency ambulance service United Hatzalah, going back to when he was first introduced to the organization’s founder, Eli Beer.
Just a few weeks ago Rahr had been in Jerusalem, where he pledged to match any donations made in a drive to add to United Hatzalah’s fleet of ambucycles, best described as a cross between a motor scooter and an ambulance.
That particular effort will see the United Hatzalah’s fleet of ambucycles increase by 50, and thanks to Donald Trump‘s recent con

Israel: Israel to Conduct Workshop on Disaster Preparedness

After providing medical assistance in areas devastated by Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), a team from Israel will return to Cebu to conduct a disaster-preparedness workshop for officials from different government sectors.
Israel Ambassador to the Philippines Menashe Bar-On visited Gov. Hilario Davide III and informed him about the workshop February 13. Based on a press statement, the workshop will be about response principles and decision-making in tactical and operational level on disaster and mass casualty incidents.
Among the topics that will be discussed are national disaster response, event site management, command and control in disas

Israel: Hadassah Staff Return to Work after Temporary Deal Reached

All sides in the wage and recovery program disputes at the Hadassah Medical Organization heaved a sigh of relief on February 19 Wednesday when a temporary agreement reached before dawn made it possible for work to continue in full.
The doctors returned to normal work, following 2 weeks of severely cutting down their workload in protest, after the Jerusalem District Court ruled that they would have enough malpractice insurance to cover them despite the 90-day freeze on Hadassah’s financial obligations.
Next year, the Hadassah Medical Organization will be “better, stable and flourishing,” predicted Avigdor Kaplan, HMO’

Israel: Ukrainians Receive Emergency Care Training from Israel

The United Hatzalah and ZAKA rescue organizations are training Jews in Kiev’s Hatzalah so they can respond to mass casualty emergencies in the troubled and violent Ukraine if the crisis escalates. In cooperation with the Isralife Foundation, the two organizations, which recently merged, are training local Jews in emergency, rescue and search techniques. Ukrainian chief rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman and Ukrainian United Hatzalah rabbi Hillel Cohen made the request jointly to United Hatzalah president Eli Beer and ZAKA chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav. The two Jerusalemites mobilized their organizations to work together to train the local tea

Health organizations from Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories, together with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, have launched a project to jointly promote community preparedness and emergency response.
The Regional Cooperation Ministry and the European Commission’s Partnership for Peace Program sponsored the project, and BGU, Magen David Adom, the Jordan Red Crescent and the Palestinian Authority’s Green Land Society for Health Development are to implement it. The groups are to develop and train community emergency response teams that will participate in joint exercises in 12 locations in the three regions that the or